International author, workshop facilitator and Permaculture teacher Starhawk from US will visit Australia to be the special guest for the Australiasian Permaculture Convergence in Brisbane in April 2020, hosted by Northey Street City Farm. Amongst her busy schedule she’ll join Robin Clayfeild at Crystal Waters Permaculture Village to offer a 3 1/2 day Social Permaculture in Action Workshop. Everyone will …

By Erin Young Social Permaculture is a nature-informed regenerative design framework for social systems; with particular focus on people care. Social Permaculture is regenerative social design. ​Here is a sample of the permaculture principles and how you might see them at play in social design: Design from patterns to details Circle structure used for meetings and classrooms. Circle rounds in …

In our February online Q&A session, we explored the question: How do we juggle many balls, projects, & aspects of groups and businesses? The first part of the question explored was: How many balls do you juggle, and how well do you juggle them? Depending on how active each project is, the amount of structure needed varies.  When there’s more …

There’s lots of excitement beginning to build in Canada as news is just being announced of Robin’s visit to Canada, to offer a six day ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ creative facilitators, teachers and group leaders course near Edmonton in late June. While she’s there Kym Chi from BC, who’s trained with and supported Robin before, will organise an evening presentation …

Documented by Robyn Francis for a conference presentation. She’s also here.

The cover of the program booklet for The Planting If you’ve never been to ‘The Planting’ Festival before and you live close enough to have three days away over the first weekend in May, you’ll get to experience and participate in a delightful diversity of environmental, social and creative workshops, talks, wanderings and activities along with ceremony and of course …

It’s just been ‘Earth Day’ and to honour that Robin rekindled this quote she wrote back in 2015 after waking up full of passion and care for our Earth and a better world while working in the UK on a course. The Glasshouse Mountains on the Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia with a beautiful rainbow tail illuminating the mountains and the …

The wonderfully creative and clever Robina McCurdy from Aotearoa NZ will be visiting Australia in late May early June and we’re very fortunate that she’ll be up on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland so she and Robin can collaborate on a day workshop called ‘Growing Community’. It will build on the material from Robin’s workshop at ‘The Planting’ and take …